Quotes Tagged "clothing"

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

I use my clothing choices as a way to express how I feel.

Clothing is the closest thing to all humans.

When I first started, I wore Ceil Chapman gowns. I've been wondering for years what happened to the Ceil Chapman line of clothing.